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. >> united nations has reviewed it demand for the u.s. to lift its embargo on cuba. the general assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a non- binding resolution calling for united nations members to consider the embargo illegal. only the u.s., israel, and an island state voted against. >> rome has been put on alert as the flooding has now reached the country's capital. >> meanwhile, people are beginning to clean up. the extent of the damage from the record flooding is becoming apparent. >> there was no rain on wednesday in central italy, but that was a small consolation to those affected by damage from the flooding. some areas in the region have not seen flooding is bad for 200 years. but back then, the river valleys were not built up. >> i have never seen anything like it. completely unexpected. it is breaking us. >> the regional governor of tuscany has blamed climate change for the catastrophe and said the flooding could get worse in the future. farmers are worried that crops could fail. the tiber valley has been particularly hard hit. >> i have suffered huge damag
. >> united nations has reviewed it demand for the u.s. to lift its embargo on cuba. the general assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a non- binding resolution calling for united nations members to consider the embargo illegal. only the u.s., israel, and an island state voted against. >> rome has been put on alert as the flooding has now reached the country's capital. >> meanwhile, people are beginning to clean up. the extent of the damage from the record flooding is...
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failing its mandate, the bbc gains access into an internal report showing the united nations failed to protect civilians in sri lanka. >> they left actually at the moment the population needed them more than ever. the government wanted them out of the way essentially because they didn't want anyone to see what was happening. >> running the world in just a week. a marathon man on a mission that boo leave most of us in the dust. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. bizarre. it is the only way to describe the scandal that has already claimed the job of the c.i.a. director and now has america's top commander in afghanistan under investigation. both are strange enough, but how do you explain the addition of a shirtless f.b.i. agent and 30,000 e-mails. here is the latest. >> it is a washington drama with a stellar cast. the spy chief, the top general and two women who soon found themselves at the heart of american power. the lid came off the scandal last friday with an admission of adult tri by general david petraeus, the revered military commander who
failing its mandate, the bbc gains access into an internal report showing the united nations failed to protect civilians in sri lanka. >> they left actually at the moment the population needed them more than ever. the government wanted them out of the way essentially because they didn't want anyone to see what was happening. >> running the world in just a week. a marathon man on a mission that boo leave most of us in the dust. welcome to our viewers on public television in america...
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nations the pillars of the united nations states. being completely undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal ones are international who are. israel is planning to conduct a large scale offensive against gaza after it soured by missiles from the top applied to territories more on that coming up later in this program. protests have started in portugal's capital lesbo where chancellor angela merkel is currently visiting people there blame the german leader for their nation's economic hardships the country had to adopt severe austerity measures in order to receive a bailout that was worth almost eighty billion euro last year artists our fourth is in the portuguese capital. political finances and back under the spotlight the german chancellor is meeting with the country's president and prime minister at the meetings coming at a very critical tim
nations the pillars of the united nations states. being completely undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal ones are international who are. israel is planning to conduct a large scale offensive against gaza after it soured by missiles from the top applied to territories more on that coming up later...
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she has represented the united states and our interests in the united nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received and to besmir much her reputation is outrageous. >> the republican senators were quick to respond. lindsey graham went on twitter and wrote the following. he said, "mr. president, don't think for one minute i don't hold you ultimately responsible for benghazi." senator mccain took his rebuttal to the senate floor. >> we believe whoever it is must be held responsible, i say, to the president of the united states. most importantly, the president of the united states who is commander in chief. who so far, in my view, has not exercise ed those responsibilits and not informed the american people of the facts. >> president obama also weighed in during that news conf
she has represented the united states and our interests in the united nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received and to besmir much her reputation is outrageous. >>...
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she has represented the united states and our interests in the united nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received and to besmir much her reputation is outrageous. >> the republican senators were quick to respond. lindsey graham went on twitter and wrote the following. he said, "mr. president, don't think for one minute i don't hold you ultimately responsible for benghazi." senator mccain took his rebuttal to the senate floor. >> we believe whoever it is must be held responsible, i say, to the president of the united states. most importantly, the president of the united states who is commander in chief. who so far, in my view, has not exercise ed those responsibilits and not informed the american people of the facts. >> president obama also weighed in during that news conf
she has represented the united states and our interests in the united nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received and to besmir much her reputation is outrageous. >>...
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nations and ask for observer status and they said israel won't be able to put sanctions on them because after all they are doing israel's dirty work in the west bank so things are getting out of control as israel said when it launched its latest assault on gaza they said we have to pursue our deterrence capacity that is restoring the arab world fear of us but had very little to do with trying to restore gaza's fear of israel their main concern was the natives were getting restless the arabs were getting to the the muslims were getting too uppity and it was time to put on another display of israel's power to murder you say things are getting out of control just help bad could the situation become not just between israel and palestine but also for the real. actually i'm skeptical the actual current school ation i'm skeptical that a school a school age yet further first of all we have to bear in mind that turkey is now doing the u.s. is dirty work in syria and they're going to be incensed that they carry on their work in regarding sea. it's now going to be said that they care more about th
nations and ask for observer status and they said israel won't be able to put sanctions on them because after all they are doing israel's dirty work in the west bank so things are getting out of control as israel said when it launched its latest assault on gaza they said we have to pursue our deterrence capacity that is restoring the arab world fear of us but had very little to do with trying to restore gaza's fear of israel their main concern was the natives were getting restless the arabs...
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they claim the president obama pressed upon the american people and upon the united nations general assembly. he was push hard to explain what caused them to push the youtube video three days after that attack. the chief said simply he was not at the betray -- petraeus briefing and had nothing to say. there was demonstrable and incurable evidence of their involvement and no evidence of anytng other than a terrorist attack. and the administration continued to press its false tale, despite fox news reporting and they reported within 24 hours, u.s. intelligence agencies monomania that the attack was an act of terrorism with ties to al qaeda, but had also identified and located one of the leaders of the attak. despite warnings hours before, state department e-mails reviewed two hours into the attack that the administration had been alerted that the terrorist group al sharia was already taking credit for the siege. and then the statement was made just 14 hours after that attack. >> you are rigt that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in egypt. and my suspicion is t
they claim the president obama pressed upon the american people and upon the united nations general assembly. he was push hard to explain what caused them to push the youtube video three days after that attack. the chief said simply he was not at the betray -- petraeus briefing and had nothing to say. there was demonstrable and incurable evidence of their involvement and no evidence of anytng other than a terrorist attack. and the administration continued to press its false tale, despite fox...
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. >>> and the united nations has declared today malala day, after the incident with a pakistani girl whose bravery has inspired the world. malala yousufzai was shot in the head by taliban militants, just for saying girls should be able to go to school. malala is recovering at a british hospital. and in this video, her father is showing her some of the get-well letters that have poured in. >>> first, there was sandy. then a nor'easter, residents in the northeast, well, they just can't get a break. some have suffered in the cold and in the dark for 12 days now. 280,000 customers remain without power across the region as they continue to wait on big promises from officials for an end to the power outages. fema has announce d that more than $400 million in assistance has been approved to the victims, on the way. susan candiotti joins us now, in rockaway, in queens. susan how are people there getting along? >> reporter: oh don, you don't want to be living here when the power goes out. behind me, a 22-story high rise where seniors live. there are no working elevators. and as we found out,
. >>> and the united nations has declared today malala day, after the incident with a pakistani girl whose bravery has inspired the world. malala yousufzai was shot in the head by taliban militants, just for saying girls should be able to go to school. malala is recovering at a british hospital. and in this video, her father is showing her some of the get-well letters that have poured in. >>> first, there was sandy. then a nor'easter, residents in the northeast, well, they...
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the secular arab nationalism. from the very inception of it in the 1930's and 1940's, the forces that rallied behind it, minorities that included christians and others, as well as sunni moslems. there is that coalition, which i think is still there in syria, and each community is divided, but there is a lot of fear of the consequences because of the unknown. >> back to the issue of what the united states can do, in terms of perceptions of winners and losers in the past few years, women have been significant losers, starting in iraq and threw out other countries. what can the united states do in terms of state -- starting in iraq and the throughout the other countries. what can the united states do in terms of this? that is not their first inclination. >> it is suggested the united states should not really do much, because the women in the united states that are pro gender equality do not appreciate what it looks like to be gender equal -- do not appreciate when people start telling them what it looks like to be ge
the secular arab nationalism. from the very inception of it in the 1930's and 1940's, the forces that rallied behind it, minorities that included christians and others, as well as sunni moslems. there is that coalition, which i think is still there in syria, and each community is divided, but there is a lot of fear of the consequences because of the unknown. >> back to the issue of what the united states can do, in terms of perceptions of winners and losers in the past few years, women...
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. >> i love my job here at the united nations. >> but after she portrayed the benghazi consulate attack as a that spun out of control. some lawmakers say she doesn't deserve the job. >> i think susan rice has disqualified herself. >> tonight, controversy in the cabinet. >> and searching for more victims of super storm sandy. >> the national guard is going building to building and door to door checking on any victims of the storm who may still need help. >> jonathan hunt on parole with the national guard. >> but first from fox this tuesday night, intelligence complex has dissolved at least for now into a horrible soap opera with reports of a love affair. secret emails, wives kept in the dark. concerns for national security and, why not? a shirtless fbi agent. tonight, the scandal that cost general david petraeus his job as the head of the cia got even more intense when yet another four star general found himself in the middle of it all. that general's name is john allen and he is the top commander in afghanistan. the one who replaced the other general who just resigned. it's an awful mes
. >> i love my job here at the united nations. >> but after she portrayed the benghazi consulate attack as a that spun out of control. some lawmakers say she doesn't deserve the job. >> i think susan rice has disqualified herself. >> tonight, controversy in the cabinet. >> and searching for more victims of super storm sandy. >> the national guard is going building to building and door to door checking on any victims of the storm who may still need help....
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israel filed a complaint with the united nations over that incident. there are concerns the violence in syria will spill over into neighboring countries. >>> and more breaking news at this hour from israel. the military there targeting militants in the gaza strip following several rocket attacks. this morning militants there launched ten rockets into southern israel. a rocket hit a house, damaging that home and nearby cars overnight. no one was hurt. the israeli air force carried out several raids in the gaza strip in response to palestinian rocket fire. israel says more than 110 rockets have hit israel since saturday. >>> investigators want to know why they're only finding out now about the investigation that revealed now former cia director general petraeus' affair. the fbi launched the investigation who jill kelley, an unpaid social liaison at an air force base in florida, complained about receiving harassing e-mails from petraeus' biographer paula broadwell. agents later discovered broadwell and petraeus were having an affair. eric cantor's spokesp
israel filed a complaint with the united nations over that incident. there are concerns the violence in syria will spill over into neighboring countries. >>> and more breaking news at this hour from israel. the military there targeting militants in the gaza strip following several rocket attacks. this morning militants there launched ten rockets into southern israel. a rocket hit a house, damaging that home and nearby cars overnight. no one was hurt. the israeli air force carried out...
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morning and will include a wreath laying and performance by the united states band brass quintet. at arlington national cemetery the ceremony will begin at 11:00. >>> people put on the macy's thanksgiving parade did a test run today. you've got to practice these things. the famous balloons and their handlers were lined up on the meadowlands racetrack to practice navigating the giant balloons. new additions this year include hello kitty, papa smurf. the parade will take place in new york city, of course. the date, november 22nd. >>> still ahead on 9 news now tonight, walking for health and raising money in the fight against this country's number one fatal disease. >>> and the veteran's day. erica has the forecast when we come back. >> across our area today, boy scouts collected food for people in need. this is the second phase of the annual scouting for food. last week boy scouts delivered bags to hundreds of homes in the washington area. today they went back to collect those bags filled with food. one of the sites was a safe way store on piney branch road in northwest washington.
morning and will include a wreath laying and performance by the united states band brass quintet. at arlington national cemetery the ceremony will begin at 11:00. >>> people put on the macy's thanksgiving parade did a test run today. you've got to practice these things. the famous balloons and their handlers were lined up on the meadowlands racetrack to practice navigating the giant balloons. new additions this year include hello kitty, papa smurf. the parade will take place in new...
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reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the united states' desire to maintain free access. the best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. so, we want to avoid that. i believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a -- continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. i believe that our new national security strategy is that unambiguous commitment, and i believe that the u.s. navy is capable of maintaining that unambiguous military strength. as we sit here this morning aboard the uss macon island, in san francisco bay, looking out to the pacific, it is easy to believe that the united states is, in fact, a pacific power and that to keep it that way we will maintain the best damn navy in the world. thank you very much. (applause)speaker .... >> now i'm going to introduce our next speaker, major general melvin spee splt e i've known
reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the united states' desire to maintain free access. the best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. so, we want to avoid that. i believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a -- continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an...
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it's inconceivable that the american ambassador to the united nations was sent out on television with totally incomplete information, with talking points that had been basically scrubbed and having no knowledge of what was originally in them. >> is it clear that susan rice saw that? that's one thing i think the republicans are going off on this, going after susan rice and knew the information she was giving out was wrong. how do we know that she saw the original point-- >> wait, wait, i never thought i would say this, but charles isn't getting a chance to talk enough. i think we need to let him talk. charles, you weigh in. >> well, let's not talk about susan rice. let's take the president's own demand that we not pick on the little lady and we pick on him. all right. let's accept the challenge. that, and he said, after all, she was just my spokesman even though she knew nothing about this. all right, what he's asking us to say the president of the united states using a spokesman who knew nothing about the issue went on five television shows and gave one version of a story where the cl
it's inconceivable that the american ambassador to the united nations was sent out on television with totally incomplete information, with talking points that had been basically scrubbed and having no knowledge of what was originally in them. >> is it clear that susan rice saw that? that's one thing i think the republicans are going off on this, going after susan rice and knew the information she was giving out was wrong. how do we know that she saw the original point-- >> wait,...
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the investigation to get answers also turned into a fight to prevent united nations ambassador susan rice from becoming the next secretary of state. steve handelsman is on the hill to report the cia may have thrown ambassador rice
the investigation to get answers also turned into a fight to prevent united nations ambassador susan rice from becoming the next secretary of state. steve handelsman is on the hill to report the cia may have thrown ambassador rice
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he said that to the united nations. there's a lot of things wrong here and she is part of it, and she gave deceptive information to the american people when there was clearly counterinformation that affirmed that this was a terrorist attack, orchestrated by an al qaeda affiliated organization. >> supporters of ambassador rice compare her comments made to comments that condoleezza rice made back when she was national security adviser in 2002 when she made a very public case for the iraq war saying that saddam hussein was pursuing nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and that intelligence was incorrect. when she was nominated for secretary of state, many republicans spoke out strongly for her, saying she was a success story, anyone who would challenge her integrity is based on politics. they say there is a double standard. to that, you say what? >> i appreciate them saying that, but the fact is, four americans died. four americans died and there was overwhelming evidence to the contrary that this was a clearly --
he said that to the united nations. there's a lot of things wrong here and she is part of it, and she gave deceptive information to the american people when there was clearly counterinformation that affirmed that this was a terrorist attack, orchestrated by an al qaeda affiliated organization. >> supporters of ambassador rice compare her comments made to comments that condoleezza rice made back when she was national security adviser in 2002 when she made a very public case for the iraq...
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of the country's people it follows france the first nation to recognize the unites which is now also money over officially sending weapons to the rebels well let's discuss this more with german journalist manual oxon writer. france believes that the e.u. arms embargo is preventing the syrian rebels from fully defending themselves how can that be when the un earlier said that those who supply weapons to syria are spreading misery well good evening what what we have to say and what we witness here is that. follows its own political agenda which has nothing to do with security or the safeness of the syrian people and yes to do with the own french. the at the political aims in the middle east in the region and we have to see whole friends behave towards libya months before last year we have to see that the french intellectuals of the lao he was missing in the libyan rebels and promising them support even made a movie about this and that he is now traveling to the syrian rebels and showing up with syrian rebels so what we see is that france somehow tries to connect me to the former coloni
of the country's people it follows france the first nation to recognize the unites which is now also money over officially sending weapons to the rebels well let's discuss this more with german journalist manual oxon writer. france believes that the e.u. arms embargo is preventing the syrian rebels from fully defending themselves how can that be when the un earlier said that those who supply weapons to syria are spreading misery well good evening what what we have to say and what we witness...
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the opposition the syrian national council which operates in exile has been disavowed by the local coordination committees based in syria meantime the president of the arab lawyers association told us western efforts to create a revolution from outside a failed. the only credibility it had was with the western powers we all remember when the us forced many countries to attend a meeting in turkey to recognize this as the legitimate representative of syria which was part of the political gimmick that the us and the western powers nato france britain were following because what they wanted is the changer for e.g. but this is a unique case where there is a true revolution within syria but those who are recognized by the us and others have absolutely nothing to do with it and so most of them have never been there and most of them have been out of the country for tens of years and the us knew that and the west knew that but they were still nevertheless recognized as the representative of the people now they have come to realize that actually the religion is going on in syria there is the i mean there
the opposition the syrian national council which operates in exile has been disavowed by the local coordination committees based in syria meantime the president of the arab lawyers association told us western efforts to create a revolution from outside a failed. the only credibility it had was with the western powers we all remember when the us forced many countries to attend a meeting in turkey to recognize this as the legitimate representative of syria which was part of the political gimmick...
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. >> i love my job here in the united nations. i always have. i always will. especially today. i look forward to serving as long as president obama would like to. >> the obama administration has announced it will likely decide in the coming weeks on the role of u.s. troops in afghanistan after a scheduled withdrawal in 2014. on monday, defense secretary leon panetta said although the majority of u.s. forces will return home, and unspecified number could stay behind to continue military operations. new government data shows the year-to-date time from january to october was the warmest ever recorded for the contiguous united states. according to the national climatic data center, the national temperature was 3.4 degrees fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average, and more than one degree higher than the previous record for the first 10 months of the year. october's cooler to buttress ended a streak of 16 consecutive warmer than average months, but this year is still on pace to become the warmest ever recorded. the latest report follows a number of global warming benchmarks,
. >> i love my job here in the united nations. i always have. i always will. especially today. i look forward to serving as long as president obama would like to. >> the obama administration has announced it will likely decide in the coming weeks on the role of u.s. troops in afghanistan after a scheduled withdrawal in 2014. on monday, defense secretary leon panetta said although the majority of u.s. forces will return home, and unspecified number could stay behind to continue...
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you know on the surface basically we are led to believe that the plan for uniting the opposition has been suggested by the former dissident in. detail the people that this is syrian bread and butter the head of the syrian national coalition there was a little there was a lot of emphasis on these previous studies as a in mumble you may have missed this is to tell syrians that there is a person who can lead you can actually germane two sides of the equation the religious part and the mubarak there is also emphasizes on the previously. famous political families lonely a classy family basically this is very much in line of work to present the obama said they're trying to rebrand this as not a whole lot of organization but a sort of moderate organization in order to tell not only the. debate in the west but also the syrian consumers of this new product which is the same product which is again to try and topple the current syrian government whatever the cause may be this is a this is a. problem we're having or this new coalition is adding obviously is that the only employee of the the empl
you know on the surface basically we are led to believe that the plan for uniting the opposition has been suggested by the former dissident in. detail the people that this is syrian bread and butter the head of the syrian national coalition there was a little there was a lot of emphasis on these previous studies as a in mumble you may have missed this is to tell syrians that there is a person who can lead you can actually germane two sides of the equation the religious part and the mubarak...
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the united nations ambassador who initially said this was the result of that attack that turned out not to be the case. democrats say she was acting on early information that was bad but republicans say it was not a good track record if she's to be considered as secretary of state. that nominating process not get under way but apparently she's on the short list. jon. >> tracie potts, thank you very much. >>> president obama will meet with congressional leaders of both parties at the white house today to try to negotiate a deal to avoid that looming fiscal cliff. the president will also meet with leaders of civil rights organizations and other advocacy groups to seek input on those negotiations. mr. obama wants any deficit reduction plan to include tax increases on the wealthy. republican leaders say they will accept new tax revenue, but not higher tax rates. >>> it is 5:44 right now and this is always a great cause, an annual event. nbc bay area dpeerigearing up f holidays by joining the fight against hunger. it takes place tomorrow at safeway stores all over the bay area. >> we'd love
the united nations ambassador who initially said this was the result of that attack that turned out not to be the case. democrats say she was acting on early information that was bad but republicans say it was not a good track record if she's to be considered as secretary of state. that nominating process not get under way but apparently she's on the short list. jon. >> tracie potts, thank you very much. >>> president obama will meet with congressional leaders of both parties at...
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nations to broker a political transition. this was the only possible way to get to deal with the day after problem. what did syria look like after assad goes? the only way was to come up with a political transition agreement that included -- which included representatives of the current regime and of the opposition and got rid of assad and established a time line and a transition, 6-point plan to move towards negotiated transition. that failed. it was the right thing to do. it failed. now we're in a situation where there's almost no -- i mean, there's a u.p. representative out there trying, but right now, there's no prospect for a political horizon, and that means that we've seen this rapid diplomacy sent into armed insurgency and war, and that's why i'm extremely pessimistic -- >> so the answer is -- >> i don't think containment -- >> make sure it stays in syria and does not -- >> i just don't see a limited way the u.s. tips the balance. it sculles the bloodshed, no fly zone, doesn't solve the problem, and nobodiments u.s. t
nations to broker a political transition. this was the only possible way to get to deal with the day after problem. what did syria look like after assad goes? the only way was to come up with a political transition agreement that included -- which included representatives of the current regime and of the opposition and got rid of assad and established a time line and a transition, 6-point plan to move towards negotiated transition. that failed. it was the right thing to do. it failed. now we're...
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the jerusalem post says united nations is calling for restraint after israel fired a warning shot at syrian troops. it was retaliation for a mortar round that landed near an israel military post. the mortar was not aimed at their position but they want to make sure syria's violence doesn't spill across the border. >> britain's "guardian" said venice is getting the worse flooding ever. the flood surge which is five feet above-normal was triggered by weekend storms. it's the worse case of flooding in the last 140 years. >> "usa today" reports on a near record wildfire season in the united states so far this year the total number of acres burned is more than 9 million. roughly the size of massachusetts and connecticut combined. >> britain's telegraph reports paul mccartney and his wife avoid a helicopter crash by two feet. new details came out from an incident in may. it almost crashed into tr >> this national weather report sponsored by macy's. >>> who is paula broadwell? she literally wrote the book on general david petraeus. >> great role model there who is value oriented, who speaks
the jerusalem post says united nations is calling for restraint after israel fired a warning shot at syrian troops. it was retaliation for a mortar round that landed near an israel military post. the mortar was not aimed at their position but they want to make sure syria's violence doesn't spill across the border. >> britain's "guardian" said venice is getting the worse flooding ever. the flood surge which is five feet above-normal was triggered by weekend storms. it's the worse...
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>> i love my jobs at the united nations. i always have, i always will, especially today and i look forward to continuing to serve for as long as president obama would like me to. ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. >> word now of major changes that may be coming in president obama's cabinet. a couple of the names being tossed around for key positions have already stirred a little bit of controversy and their way there. molly henneberg joins me live from the white house. one of the most controversial names that we are hearing is who could be the next secretary of state, molly. >> reporter: yes, the ambassador susan rice who is now the current u.s. ambassador to the united nation -ts she may succeed hillary clinton as secretary of state over there at state department according to the "washington post." we've heard ambassador rice's name a lot this fall after she appeared on numerous talk shows after the deadly libya attack and repeated the obama administration's position that the attack was the result of a demonstra
>> i love my jobs at the united nations. i always have, i always will, especially today and i look forward to continuing to serve for as long as president obama would like me to. ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. >> word now of major changes that may be coming in president obama's cabinet. a couple of the names being tossed around for key positions have already stirred a little bit of controversy and their way there. molly henneberg joins me live from the white house....
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he even talked to the united nations on september 25th saying the crude and disgusting video sparked outrage to the muslim world. we all knew by september 25th, i'd say with respect to the president. by the way, i'm not taking anybody on. the american people have lost four brave americans. we owe it to their families, we owe it to other americans who served. >> well, you are taking someone on, senator. you've come out and said i will do everything in my power to block ambassador rice from being united states secretary of state. she's proven either she doesn't understand or she's not willing to accept evidence on its face. all i'm asking is why make a bold comment like that before these hearings on benghazi had been carried out? might you not learn something over the next day or so that might open your eyes and change your opinion? >> i learned something the day that it happened. i know that people don't come to spontaneous demonstrations with rockets and mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy weapons. i knew that at the time. in fact, i was on "face the nation" and
he even talked to the united nations on september 25th saying the crude and disgusting video sparked outrage to the muslim world. we all knew by september 25th, i'd say with respect to the president. by the way, i'm not taking anybody on. the american people have lost four brave americans. we owe it to their families, we owe it to other americans who served. >> well, you are taking someone on, senator. you've come out and said i will do everything in my power to block ambassador rice from...
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the jerusalem post says united nations is calling for restraint after israel fired a warning shot at syrian troops. it was retaliation for a mortar round that landed near an israeli military post. israeli officials say the mortar was not aimed at their positions but they want to make sure syria's violence does not spill across the border. >>> britain's guardian says venice, italy, is getting some of the worst flooding ever reported. rising sea water has flooded 70% of the city. the flood surge which is five feet above normal was triggered by weekend >>> it's a chilly start to the day around the bay area. the sun coming up toward pleasanton and looks like nice sunny skies, but cold temperatures in spots. just above freezing in fairfield, 38 livermore. you get the idea, a chilly start to the day. these temperatures fairly mild, mid-60s in livermore. cool out toward the coastline, a little breezy there. the next couple of days should be a little bit warmer but showers could return on friday. >> this national weather report sponsored by macy's. >>> this national weather report sponsored
the jerusalem post says united nations is calling for restraint after israel fired a warning shot at syrian troops. it was retaliation for a mortar round that landed near an israeli military post. israeli officials say the mortar was not aimed at their positions but they want to make sure syria's violence does not spill across the border. >>> britain's guardian says venice, italy, is getting some of the worst flooding ever reported. rising sea water has flooded 70% of the city. the...
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states, and if, indeed, we believe there's a serious risk of that, of some major foreign nation state attacking l -- the u.s. through cyber means or a terrorist group making such an attack, i do wonder whether we're positioned to respond to that like we are in the physical world. by way of example that i think about sometimes, if you envision some sort of hosht event where foreign military invades the united states and jets fly into the united states, we might not all know the exact rules of what happens in response, but i think most of us are fairly confident that northern command, the military responds, jets are scrambled, people basically know who is supposed to do what. although, there might be a great deal of confusion on the ground about what's happening, the basic frame work exists for a response. i'm not extremely confident that that frame work exists in the cyber realm that if there's an attack into the cyber infrastructure and critical infrastructure, it's not clear to me that we know who is responding, how they respond, how they get access to the various networks they need
states, and if, indeed, we believe there's a serious risk of that, of some major foreign nation state attacking l -- the u.s. through cyber means or a terrorist group making such an attack, i do wonder whether we're positioned to respond to that like we are in the physical world. by way of example that i think about sometimes, if you envision some sort of hosht event where foreign military invades the united states and jets fly into the united states, we might not all know the exact rules of...
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. >>> president obama's strongly backing united nations ambassador susan rice, his choice to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. he traded strong words yesterday with two republicans who have denounced rice's attempt to explain the attack on the american consulate in libya. >> as i've said before, she made an appearance at the request of the white house in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> we're not picking on anybody, and i doubt if the families of these brave americans who were murdered would believe that we are "picking on" anyone. we are trying to find out the facts. the american people deserve to know the facts. we can't ever let this happen again. >> cbs news has obtained briefing notes that ambassador rice received on the day she first spoke about the attack. margaret brennan is here with that story. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. it's good to have you in washington, charlie. >> good to be here. >> we
. >>> president obama's strongly backing united nations ambassador susan rice, his choice to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. he traded strong words yesterday with two republicans who have denounced rice's attempt to explain the attack on the american consulate in libya. >> as i've said before, she made an appearance at the request of the white house in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her. if senator mccain and...
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while recent attacks in libya are rice's greatest hurdle, she did lead the charge at the united nations to protect libya's rebels. she has not been able to produce similar results for syria. >> i can tell you that the president believes ambassador rice has done an excellent job and is grateful for her service. >> the president's choice of susan rice contrasts with his thinking four years ago when the president built a team of rivals, nominating former opponent hillary clinton to be secretary. with rice, he has selected one of his closest advisers. >> margaret, thank you. >>> report this is morning say petraeus will testify to congress this week about the attack that killed the american ambassador in libya. members are pushing for more answers about the benghazi incident. sharyl attkisson reports. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. behind closed doors for members of congress only. mike morell and state department officials briefed some committee members. the state department has internal cables and documents. tomorrow it's expected they'll be shown some surveillance video of the at
while recent attacks in libya are rice's greatest hurdle, she did lead the charge at the united nations to protect libya's rebels. she has not been able to produce similar results for syria. >> i can tell you that the president believes ambassador rice has done an excellent job and is grateful for her service. >> the president's choice of susan rice contrasts with his thinking four years ago when the president built a team of rivals, nominating former opponent hillary clinton to be...
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this is ground and flight across the nation right now. they are aware of the problems and they are working on it. passengers have been stuck at some airports for about two hours now. they have been told of the computers are down and they do not know when the system will we back out. we have a crew headed to s s zero to give us more informations on this united computer glitch that is swat grounding flights across the nation. >> san rafael police are looking for a prowler who injured a woman in a confrontation late tuesday night early to end tuesday morning wednesday morning. it was around 1030 at night and he was confronted by a woman from the apartment and it got into a fight with him and he may have been stabbed. and >> is a live shot of the golden gate bridge with traffic slowing just a bit as you head to san francisco. in the north to the season clouds out there and we expect those jury the the season clouds out there and w[ male announcer ]y the citibank's app for ipad makes it easy for anne to manage her finances when she's on the go
this is ground and flight across the nation right now. they are aware of the problems and they are working on it. passengers have been stuck at some airports for about two hours now. they have been told of the computers are down and they do not know when the system will we back out. we have a crew headed to s s zero to give us more informations on this united computer glitch that is swat grounding flights across the nation. >> san rafael police are looking for a prowler who injured a...
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nations susan rice. >> it goes to show that when you try to get information out very quickly, and because of congress wanting to hear about it, the administration, and media, that information with respect to intelligence evolves and changes, and when they received additional information, they clarified it. >> what is very clear, is that ambassador rice used the talking points that the intelligence committee all signed off on. >> the key is that they were unclassified talking points, at a very early stage. and i don't think she should be p attacked for this. >> i think there is confusion in the administration for what they said, think, or know. >> clearly differing opinions there, let's get more with lewis gutierrez. thank you for your time. has anything in the last two days changed your mind about what happened in benghazi? >> a couple of things, maybe we should put a warning sign when the first information comes out. a warning sign. and let me just say that general petraeus, when he first gave us information on the 13th and the 14th of september, for those of us able to see it, there was
nations susan rice. >> it goes to show that when you try to get information out very quickly, and because of congress wanting to hear about it, the administration, and media, that information with respect to intelligence evolves and changes, and when they received additional information, they clarified it. >> what is very clear, is that ambassador rice used the talking points that the intelligence committee all signed off on. >> the key is that they were unclassified talking...
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on national security challenges facing the united states. he said the top priority should be getting the nation's fiscal house in order. this forum was one of a series of discussions hosted by the world affairs councils of america. it's about 35 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much and good morning, everyone, and welcome, steve. it's really, really a pleasure to have you here in this morning, and we're going to dive right in. i want to begin, first, by giving you credit for speaking to the world affairs could coun. i believe it wasn't only last year, but the year before when steve hadley challenged all of us to come up with a focus, a set of issues, in fact, that the councils across the united states should be honing in on. well, as you know, this year's conference is galvanized around a set of issues, u.s. national security, six topic issues for the president in 2013. and let me just recap those for you, because we want to drill down in these. the councils have selected u.s. economic competitiveness, u.s. education competing globally, t
on national security challenges facing the united states. he said the top priority should be getting the nation's fiscal house in order. this forum was one of a series of discussions hosted by the world affairs councils of america. it's about 35 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much and good morning, everyone, and welcome, steve. it's really, really a pleasure to have you here in this morning, and we're going to dive right in. i want to begin, first, by giving you credit for speaking...
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i am sharing the united nations high-level panel of development with ambition of eradicating absolute poverty in our world. i am a prime minister who will work closely with president obama in a renewed effort on the middle east peace process, and let us congratulate him tonight on winning a historic second term. yes, i am a prime minister who will -- you will bring troops home from afghanistan. let us all take a moment to pay tribute, as we all did yesterday, to the extraordinary courage of the brave servicemen and women who across the generations have given their lives for our safety and freedom. [applause] now i have spoken about the traditional foreign policy issues on many occasions, but tonight i wanted to make a different kind of speech. do not worry, not about the bbc. [laughter] because i have done something else with form policy, too. i have given it a new, commercial focus. when i became prime minister as the to the diplomats, i do not want you just to be political ambassadors for britain, i want you to the economic ambassadors, too. just like any other job in sales, i want
i am sharing the united nations high-level panel of development with ambition of eradicating absolute poverty in our world. i am a prime minister who will work closely with president obama in a renewed effort on the middle east peace process, and let us congratulate him tonight on winning a historic second term. yes, i am a prime minister who will -- you will bring troops home from afghanistan. let us all take a moment to pay tribute, as we all did yesterday, to the extraordinary courage of the...